Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear,...

Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we...

The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it,...

Children only know what you teach them.

You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore… All of the sudden, even though you have some place to put your...

Smiling is not a choice, it’s a lifestyle. Pass it on.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I...

I know. When you kiss me, it’s like that for me, too.

Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to tamp everything down to the routine, the modest, the tepid everyday. He understands...

…bands fall out. But at the end of the day, they’re like family. You get back together because you have to, because you’re stronger together than you are apart.

Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

Together we gazed out over corkscrew switchbacks cut through a barren, rocky landscape stretching to the horizon. It was simultaneously awesome and insane to be in this spot as a family, though, for a flicker...

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

There was nothing I wished I’d said to him. There was nothing I wished I hadn’t said.

Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn’t, family that wasn’t family...

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

device” (as I have called it) was learned in part from a very young age from her parents.

How rude of me, we haven’t even introduced ourselves. We’re the Andersons. I’m Evan, the lovely size-zero lass in the floppy sun hat is my wife Amy, and these are our best friends/children, Evan and...

Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father’s pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.

Born in the 90s and raised in a deserted rural area by a single mother with 2 brothers, a sister and a couple of cousins – you know; a normal Zulu family of the 21st...

Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

Nona was as wacky as they came.

In communities, at work, but particularly in families, people are put together in something like a three-legged race. God means us to cross the finish line together, and all the other people tied together with...

My mother-in-law got so angry at me she vowed she’d never speak to me again, and I smiled and gave thanks for the little miracle God worked in my life.

Filial respect caused Grey to hesitate in passing ex post facto opinions on his mother’s judgment, but after half an hour in the company of either Paul or Edgar, he could not escape a lurking...

For every wounded warrior, there is a myltitude of family, friends, and communities who are forever changed.

There’s life after divorce, Sarah,’ my father proclaimed, not that he’d ever been divorced.

I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?

I have a spreadsheet of all the women I’d like to spread and sheet. Your mom is on my list. So is your grandma, may she rest in peace.

It doesn’t matter what story we’re telling, we’re telling the story of family.

Maybe I will buy my nephew an aquarium for his next birthday. It’s got to be better than the bathroom sink, which is where my brother is keeping him now.

No more than two to a tricycle, please. When I said family fun, I didn’t mean this is a place to start a family. (Children over 65 eat free.)

Never plan a picnic’ Father said. ‘Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

I never knew my father. I saw him at a party once, but he never walked over and introduced himself to me.

A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren’t real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be...

She has never tried to find out what happened to her family — her mother or her relatives in Ireland. But over and over, Molly begins to understand as she listens to the tapes, Vivian...

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

A Christian will find it most beneficial to practice secret worship, corporate worship, and family worship. They are all important for our life in Christ. They each bear a necessary weight, and they all inform...

Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people...

Donit kill her now, just when we’ve gone to all that trouble to rescue her,” said Jeffrey.

Small fruit is better than big words.

I replayed the moment I first saw him at the picnic throughout our years together. As corny as it may sound, from the first glance we shared near the cake stand at the picnic, the...

A mother’s love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends.

Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.

Families are wonderful institution,” he said. “I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge....